Intel Xeon E5-1660 vs Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2

Xeon E5-1660 vs Xeon E5-2680 v2 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2680 v2 is faster than the Xeon E5-1660. Despite this, the Xeon E5-1660 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2680 v2 has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Xeon E5-1660 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-1660. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1660 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2680 v2. Also, the Xeon E5-1660 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2680 v2 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-1660 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1660 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.